Section: News & Summaries

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ukraine`s economy (non-resident shareholders` equity) as of April 1, 2016 amounted to $42.820 billion, which was higher by 0.7%, or $297 million, as compared to $42.523 billion recorded at the beginning of the year, according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.The first quarter saw an inflow of $1.036...

U.S. Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland has said that the United States will not recognize elections in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People`s Republics if they run counter to the Minsk agreements, according to Russian news agency TASS.”We will not recognize the results – or will anybody else in the...

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has put a new domestically produced light machine gun (LMG) into service of Ukraine`s Armed Forces, according to an UNIAN correspondent.”A Mayak KM-7.62 LMG has been put into service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Thus, since the beginning of the year five new models of weapons and military hardware have been...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says the forcible deportation of the Crimean Tatars from Crimea under Joseph Stalin`s rule is a shared pain.”On May 18, 1944, a criminal eviction of the Crimean Tatars from Crimea began. We share this pain,” Poroshenko wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.On May 18, Ukraine commemorates victims of the genocide of the...

No Ukrainian soldiers were killed but 10 were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone over the last 24 hours, presidential administration spokesman for the Anti-Terrorist Operation Colonel Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday, according to an UNIAN correspondent. ”Over the last day, we haven`t lost any Ukrainian soldiers, but 10...

Hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank currency market on Wednesday strengthened to UAH 25.23/25.26 to the dollar by the middle of trade, a broker at a commercial bank has told an UNIAN correspondent.Hryvnia quotes against the euro have settled at UAH 28.4160/28.4450, while those against the Russian ruble have settled at UAH...

An alliance of hacker groups ?#?FalconcFlame and ?#?Trinity has hacked one of the websites of Crimea`s de-facto government, having launched an operation dubbed #opMay18 to commemorate the forced deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 and celebrate Jamala`s victory at the Eurovision song contest in 2016, according to the InformNapalm Ukraine...

Ukraine`s Cabinet of Ministers has approved the reform of the State Penitentiary Service, according to an UNIAN correspondent.The concept of the reform was presented by First Deputy Minister of Justice Natalia Sevostianova at a government meeting on Wednesday.In particular, two Cabinet resolutions were passed in line with the reform: a resolution...

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump told Reuters in a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday that Vladimir Putin`s good things about him will not help him in a negotiation.Commenting on Russian presence in Ukraine, Trump said: ”I don`t like it. I don`t like it at all,” as reported by Reuters.”Putin made very nice statements about me. Very...

Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych`s lawyers claim that their client cannot be extradited to Ukraine, as there are no Interpol Red Notices for him, according to an UNIAN correspondent.”Regarding the official extradition procedure… As of today, there is no official procedural possibility of, let`s say, the extradition of Yanukovych...